Probably because this kind of seal cutting style is fresh and popular, it soon spread to other places, affecting not only the family carving in other places, but also the official carving, official carving and square carving. The style of this standard Jiajing edition changed gradually in Qin Long, and it was transferred to the later Wanli edition. Starting from Wanli, a new style appeared in Ming dynasty, which was different from the standard Jiajing edition. Its main feature is still in the font and layout, especially the change of font is more obvious, that is, from the original Jiajing font, which is square, but still based on the European style of Zhejiang in the Southern Song Dynasty, it has developed into a new font with a more neat square, horizontal and vertical, thin and vertical, and completely separated from European characters. This new font is called "square", but some people also call it "Song Style". According to the available data, this kind of square characters was first used to engrave books in Huizhou, Anhui. Since the Ming Dynasty, many people in Huizhou have gone out to do business, which is called "Huizhou merchants". Huizhou merchants often live or settle in Nanjing, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and other places, often taking them with them. At the same time, Huizhou engravers often ask Suzhou scholars to be responsible for collating, so the book-engraving atmosphere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces was quickly influenced by it, and then this kind of square character engraving spread to many parts of the country.
Wanli also has a so-called "engraving". The so-called "writing seal cutting" is because the fonts of Jiajing and Wanli moment books are more and more neat and standardized, and finally they have produced square characters that are completely separated from ordinary writing fonts and are dedicated to engraving books. At this time, it was called "writing engraving", and its original work was called "writing engraving". Zhao Ti characters are still used in Wanli engraving, but the exquisite style is not as vigorous and powerful as Zhao Ti in the early Ming Dynasty, but becomes smooth and vivid.
The prints of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen Dynasties are generally called the prints of the late Ming Dynasty. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to maintaining Wanli Fangzi and a few seal engravers, Hangzhou Fangzi also used a new Fangzi. Unlike the square characters made by Wanli, which are so thin and vertical, they have become square characters with slightly longer fonts and thinner strokes, which can be called cuboid characters and look quite clear and eye-catching.